Conejos Library District

When Jake was 3 years old at Miss Lulu's Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast. Now Jake's in 4th grade and he can look back and see that the year that made the differencewas second grade.

In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's objections.

In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.